From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "M. Serkan Apaydin" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs cvs over ssh question Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:56:12 -0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1072288897 8136 80.91.224.253 (24 Dec 2003 18:01:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 18:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 24 19:01:34 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AZDKA-0001nv-00 for ; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:01:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AZEGS-0001Qt-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Dec 2003 14:01:48 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 56 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: antioch.stanford.edu Original-X-Trace: news.Stanford.EDU 1072288572 360 171.64.68.180 (24 Dec 2003 17:56:12 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@news.stanford.edu User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20030917 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119622 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15563 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15563 gebser@speakeasy.net wrote: >At 11:10 (UTC-0700) on Tue, 23 Dec 2003 Kevin Rodgers said: > >= M. Serkan Apaydin wrote: >= >= > Kai Grossjohann wrote: >= >> Try to add /usr/local/bin to exec-path, not load-path. (load-path is >= >> for *.el and *.elc files, that is Lisp files.) >= >> >= >> Or make sure that /usr/local/bin is listed in $PATH at the time when >= >> you start Emacs. (If you start Emacs from a button in the KDE panel, >= >> then it can be difficult to find out whether the directory is in >= >> $PATH, and if it isn't, how to put it there. I never could figure >= >> that out.) >= > >= > Thanks, but that does not seem to work. Changing .emacs file does not >= > change >= > the propensity of emacs to look for ssh-askpass in /usr/bin, and my path >= > lists >= > both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin before running emacs (although /usr/bin >= > comes first). >= >= That's because the /usr/bin/ssh-askpass path has been hard-coded somewhere, >= >= either an executable or an Emacs Lisp file. > >This will depend upon the OS and, in the case of Linux, the >distribution. On my system: > ># echo $SSH_ASKPASS >/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass > >Seeing this and reading the askpass section of the ssh manpage and the >doc distributed with the package leads me to believe/guess that >ssh-askpass is used in an X (or other GUI) environment. If you're >doing the emacs cvs call in a GUI, this could be the problem. Try doing >it at the console-- i.e., go to runlevel 3 or, in X/Linux, do a >Ctrl-Alt-F2 and run it there. > >So which OS are you using? > > > I am running it on an SGI supercomputer. Typing >uname IRIX64 > echo $SSH_ASKPASS SSH_ASKPASS: Undefined variable. There is no way to go to console for me, as I am always logging in to this machine from another. serkan